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Civic Engagement Toolkit: Turn Out 2018

Turn Out 2018 Objectives and Downloads

The NAACP’s Civic Engagement focus, Turn Out 2018, is the voter registration and mobilization program that will reach voters in the targeted states and ensure that we convey the message “Vote! Our lives depend on it.”

The program is designed to leverage our collective resources to deliver on a shared agenda for the Black community and all communities of color through:

As an organization, we know that if people of color and specifically black voters participated in elections at the same rate as whites have we would have a progressive majority. Black voters are skeptical of the political establishment, unhappy with candidate choices, frustrated with structural and institutional racism, slow job growth, no wage growth, the rising costs of health care, the rising cost of college and the rising cost of housing, and disturbed about police violence. All these issues can and be addressed by electing the right individuals and passing the right legislation.

Focusing in on targeted voter registration and turn out in 2018 will set the stage for the next five years by ensuring equitable outcomes for all communities, creating the necessity for candidates to develop solutions to inequality including the census, redistricting and voting rights, and building capacity in key states. It is through the NAACP infrastructure in states, our critical partnerships, and shared resources that we will shape our ability to be a formidable force this election.

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"We must DISSENT from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away...We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership."
~ Thurgood Marshall #QOTD